Lauren LoGiudice

The number of Italian Americans who hold themselves apart from the Columbus standard bearers is substantial. That we do not have a public voice is not for the lack of trying. There are academics, journalists, and independent scholars pursuing the...

To judge and mock an entire ethnic group is the worst kind of stereotype mongering. It’s the equivalent of using the hated N- word to describe an entire race. It’s even worse when the denigration comes from within the group.

Italian Americans have become the worst of ourselves. We made Columbus into the representative for the vestiges of a vanishing identity. Interestingly, perhaps subconsciously, we have selected someone whose conquests align with an ultra-masculine identity we deem as authentically Italian...